If you want to put together your drawings and images, I would recommend InDesign - you can easily create a portfolio with a consistent style and appearance.

Also, resizing and cropping the images is easy, as is printing out the portfolio as a pdf.

Look no further, there's really no program better suited in my opinion.

2nd IndDesign. ID is a great way to put it all together and made specifically for that. Make changes to things in PS and Ill.

once made my portfolio in powerpoint, including diagrams and stuff like that. looking back, it looked like shit, including some of the projects, but I got an internship/job out of it. Though I would recommend the Adobe route, it's pricey when not in school, if money's an issue try out some of the alternatives:
Free Open Source Alternatives for Adobe Creative Suite

The educational version for the full set is somewhere around $500, that's pretty inexpensive.

Does anyone know of any InDesign tutorials? I'm trying to teach myself while working against a deadline... not going so well. Any quick routes to set up a consistent template so my port doesn't look like poop?

What I've done recently (since I usually have someone else that knows ID well do things) is to make the pages in Illustrator and just place them in ID.

That way you only need to know how to make a document (make sure you uncheck facing pages if you don't want them, add more pages than you need, and put the margins at 0, check 'show options' for the placing - that way you can select which layer you want to place, just make sure you don't put the layers in groups inside of groups).

Sbeth, you can set up master pages that let you work as templates.

I use Macromedia Freehand but only because I've been using it for years. I'm slowly switching to Illustrator and Indesign since Adobe will not be making any upgrades to Freehand!

Thanks for the input guys...So did you firgure out how to use Indesign on your own or did you use a tutorial or something of that nature? is it fairly simple?

I think most of us learned it on our own. You learn more when you are exposed to it, when you have to use it etc. You read some tutorials, some online instructions and rest of it you figure out. The only time I actually had somebody show me couple of things was 3dmax and Revit, other than that everything was learned by just messing around. I'm not saying its the easiest way to do it, but it sure can be done.

ID is pretty simple to use. It has advanced features for high end printing and such, but for a basic portfolio it is a breeze (I thought so).

You might have to trial and error the PDFs, I found that flexibility to be great (control of file size) but add a few minutes to the work flow.

i learned indesign when i had to make a nice layout for a group project so i was forced to learn how to use it

while im not exactly an expert at the adobe programs i get by

when you dont know how to do something google is your best friend